Notre art dément. Quatre Études sur l’art pathologique. Les Chercheurs - Notre art dément - L’impressionnisme pathologique - Le démence de Cézanne. 69 illustrations.
Paris: J. Povolozky et Cie, 1926. With numerous text illustrations and 48 reproductions of paintings. First edition. Association copy, inscribed the Ernő (Ernst) Kállai. Text in French. In publisher’s wrappers, with an illustrated vignette on cover. 122, (2) p., and 24 plates. Wrappers somewhat chipped. Some pages creased. Title page torn, but no effect on text. Underlines and notes in pencil by Kállai throughout. Overall in good condition.
Association copy of the Hungarian art critic’s collection of essays about the pathology of artists. Inscribed to Ernst Kállai (1890–1954) the Hungarian art historian who first published his works in Lajos Kassák's magazine “MA”. In 1928 he was the editor of the periodical “Bauhaus” in Dessau.
Illustrated with 48 full-page and 20 in-text (five of which are paste-ons) reproductions of works by painters such as Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Georg Grosz, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Matisse, Modigliani, Monet, Emil Nolde and Renoir.
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Price: €700.00